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For the lust fifteen yrn.ru, that in to ny, since f ho sicgo of Paris in 1870, tho consumption of horso flesh has steadily incrensed iu Iho gny capital. What was then (ho food of necessity has now become one of the standard dishes of tho table. They have nt last invented something new, albeit very gruesome, in tho way of ft cirrus performance iu Europe. It ap pears that the latest freak of female circus riders there is to hold a living python outstretched in their hands as they swing nround the sawdust. Front seats oro not at a premium. "Cramner, of Colorado," ns he is popularly called, is probably tho most cxtensivo rattle-raiser in the world. His cattle are all branded with three circles, the three-circle brand he calls it. Once ho was at a cattle convention, and while conversing with a party of friends one of them happened to mention the name of Shakespeare. 'Shakespeare?" ob served Crannier, "where have I heard thnt name before? What kind of a brand does he use on his cattle?" The dogs are having a hard time of it. If they should rise in their might, all get mad and attack their present enemy, man, the chances would bo in their favor nt first. A well-known dog fancier in Kcw York sent to a paper the following statistics concerning tho number of ca nines in and near the metropolis: New York city, 1100,000; Brooklyn, 150,000; Long Island City and Blissvillc, 10,000; "Westchester county, 50,000; lloboken nnd suburbs, 15,000; Jersey City and suburbs, 15,000; Newark and suburbs, 150,000; Staten Island, 20,000." Speaking of how ocean steamship companies arc annually defrauded, an. officer of one of them says in an inter view: ''Every person who "has ever crossed the Atlantic has noticed several elegantly attired gentlemen who nt times would wander haughtily among tho steerage passengers, condescend to con verse with tho intermediate people, and on fine days invariably promcnado tho hurricane deck. No one knew who they were; no one had ever seen them cab anything, nnd tho passengers, one and all, discussed the mystery of 'where those fellers hung it out every night ! ' Well, these same gentlemen obtain all this freedom and luxury by simply buying a steerage ticket and boarding during the voyage in either the carpenter's or boutswain's room." The telephone lias become an indis pensable means of roinimi mention between tho civilized countries of the old and new world, and to show the use each country is making of the invention the following table is given : Get-ninny i:S,000 England, over , 1 2,00(1 France, about 10,000 Italy 7,000 Swollen 11,000 Switzerland 5,000 Spain, estimated 1,100 Holland 4,000 Belgium 5,000 Russia 3,000 Austro-Hiingary 4,500 By way of comparison it may be of in terest to add that the number of tele phones now in use iu the United States is estimated at 250,000. As to the silver wedding and golden wedding most of us know about those anniversaries; but here now is something new in the same pleasant line a bit about a crown-diamond wedding. The crown-diamond anniversary is the sixty fifth, and such an anniversary was ob served a short time ago at Maebuell, in the Island of Alsen. Having completed their sixty-fifth year of wedlock, Clans Jacobsen and his venerable spouse were solemnly blessed by the parson f their parish, and went for the fifth time in their long wedded life through the form of mutual troth-plighting before tho altar at which they had for the first time been united before tho battle of Waterloo was fought. The united age of the couple is 178 years. Some interesting facts concerning the relative vitality of males and females are shown in the forty-sixth annual report of the English registar-gencrul. In each 1,000 living persons there are 487 males and 513 females; but for every 100 fe males 103.5 males were born. At every age of life the death rate was lower iu the females, and the difference is greater iu early years. In both sexes u diminished deuth rate is taking pluce. This is more marked in females than in mules, ut all ages. The improvement is especially uutieeable iu women up to forty-five, uiul iu men to thirty-five. The meuu expec tation of life of a mule ut birth is 41.115, and of a female 44. 03 years. The annual expectation of illness is, counted by days, nearly the lamt in both lexci. Aged and able old horses are the result of human caro and usage. This is ex emplified from an English source as fol lows: 'A gentleman had three horses, which severally died in his possession at the ages of 35, 37 nnd 80 years. Tho oldest was in a carriage the very day he died, strong nnd vigorous, but was car ried off by a spasmodic colic to which ho was subject. A horse in use at a riding school in Woolwich lived to be 40 years old, and a bargo horso of an English navigation company is declared to have been in his C2d year when he died." The St. Louis Glotie-Democrat has been compiling some interesting figures con cerning tho number of prisoners in the country now serving terms for embezzle ment or forgery. These statistics reveal the somewhat surprising fact that New York prisons contain only seven. Ohio, on the other hand, has sixty-two; Kansas, forty-four ; Indiana, thirty ; Massachusetts, twenty-six, and New Jersey, eighteen. The natural pride that a New Yorker should take in such a condition of affairs is rudely shocked by the Troy Timet, which says that New York "financiers" are not punished ; they go to Canada. The average .man knows, perhaps,' a score of insects familiarly by name; ho has moro or less knowledge, perhaps, of a hundred, nnd ho sees in these a won derful variety of forms nnd colors. But the resources of nature arc vastly greater than any one realizes who has not made a special study of some branch of natural history. Think of Dr. Riley's collection of North American insects, which is said to contain 20,000 species, represented by more than 115,000 pinned specimens, and others preserved iu alcohol or by other methods. He lias given this collection to the National museum, where all who care to do so may study the fruits of his labor. A traveler in New Mexico gives a glow ing description of the country through which a new road passes, and tells of tho Seven Cities of the Chico valley what al most reads like the romantic explorations of the members of. tho Smithsonian In stitute. Ho says that there arc to-day in that valley ruins of large buildings five stories high, and some of them in such an excellent state of preservation that the ma sonry and plastering arc looking as new and fresh as though dono but a few years instead of centuries ago. These build ings arc popularly supposed to be of Aztec origin, but, strange to say, there is nt present no historical account of them or of their builders. The question of insanity and its greater or less prevalence to-day as compared with former times, appears to be far from settlement. The fact that cases which were considered hopeless fifty years ago are now often cured means that persons who would have died under the treat ment then without the knowledge ever becoming general that their complaints were of the brain rather than the body are now added to the table of statisticJis lunatics. The great increase in tho num ber and perfection of asylums also swells tho number of the recorded insane and aids in com plicating nny attempt to judge whether the brain troubles are really, as it is often asserted, on the increase among civilized nations. The Iowa courts have made an import ant decision regarding tho civil rights of colored people. A negro who was re fused admission to a place of amusement because of his color appealed to the law, when the circuit court held that it did not appear from the averments that plaintiff had any legal right to enter tho place of amusement. The supreme court affirms this ruling and says: "The act complained of by the plaintiff was the withdrawal by the defendants, as to him, of the offer which they had made to ad mit him, or to contract with him for ad mission. They had tho right to do this, as to him or any "other member of tho public. This right is not based upon thc fact that he belongs to a particular race, but arises from tho consideration that neither he nor any other person could de mand as a right under the law that the privilege of entering the pluce be accord ed to him." Bull against Hiick. A remarkable light occurred recently on the farm of the lion. Oscur Turner iu Ballard county between a large Durham bull, belonging to Col. Turner, and a buck weighing over 200 pounds. Both were found in the forest dead, only a few feet apart. The bull had been gored three times by ihe buck, the lust thrust entering the animal's heart, and must liuve killed him almost iustantly. The deer was dreadfully bruised, though the kitl had not been cut through. The ground where the light occurred was cut up by the feet of the auimuls. loutn.UU PoiU DISTANCE. On softening days, when a storm was nrnr. At tho farmhouse door I bare stood in the R"y, And caught in the diseance, faint but clear, The sound of a train, passing, far away. Tho warning bell when the start wu made, The engine's puffing of smoke unseen, With tho heavy rumble as wheels obeyed Across the miles between. And so sometimes, on a moonless night, When the stars shine soft and the wind is low, To my listening soul, in the pallid light, Come the trembling voices of long-ago The tuneful echoes when hope was young. The tender song of love serene, And the throbbing rhythm of passion's tongue Across the years between. Margaret W. Hamilton. MY DAY. Ilow long is thnt of mot people, I wonder? Some perhaps can number the full six hundred nnd thirteen thousand six hundred nnd eight hours of the al lotted threescore years and ten, while others outlast the pre-Adamic day of the geologist, and cover all eternity. But mine was just the ordinary daylight one, the shortest in the year, too, for it was the 21st of December. And even short as it was, I had already wasted some hours of it. Had I thought it would have set so soon I might have been up nt its dawning, though usunlly I hold, with Lever, that the sun looks best as every one else does when he's up and dressed for the day, nnd that its a piece of impertinent curiosity to peep nt him when he's raising nnd nt his toilet ; he has not rubbed tho clouds out of his eyes, or you dared not look nt him. But when one's sun shines such a little while as mine, might not one he pardoned for rushing to the levee nt an unfashion able hour. Yet it was noon before I was out in the bright glow, trudging down the lane with yesterday's fall of snow crisping under my feet, and last night's sleet clashing overhead, as the wind caught nt the strnggling, overgrown hedge-row boughs and sent them ringing together with such an icy jeweled flash nnd splendor of green and gold nnd red and blue as summer with all her wealth of lenves and blossoms, could not rival. The very splendor promised the glitter ing mockery but a short life; the sun is a traitor with his kisses, nnd the warmth of them would soon wither away the snow wreaths, making their delicate mimicry of the white .May and the hawthorn in the hedcrc. Thit. monntlmn i, fair, and the snow lay light and white tinder the great peach orchards that hnd their icv snarkle tnn with gentle undulations, right nnd left of 41. a ;i i . -. v. me sun lane. Aim the blue skv hnd the merest snowflake of a cloud drifting along, nnd the sun was shining full upon roe, nnd somehow n glint of it had got into my heart, though there was nothing in particular to bring it there. Yet I did not intend to mope. Aunt Margaret and the girls were friendly nnd kind, nnd the least I could do would be to put aside the shadow of my crape, and show them a contented face. And so Perhaps something more than content flashed into it just then, when that thought of mine was broken short off by a clatter of those hedge-row boughs, and some one sprang down through the gap, bringing with him a little clutter of fall ing icicles into the road before me. For, ns we shook hands, there was a pleased look in his eyes, and he said, with some abruptness : "You are a little glad to see me? You won't mind my finishing your walk with you?" I tried to answer carelessly, though it wns not so easy, tinder that gaze of his. "Oh,if you are of a zoological turn this morning, I am going in search of foxtail nnd crowfoot. I marked a quite splendid bed down by the brook in the woods in a sheltered spot where I dare say this light snow has not covered it. The girls tell me they nro not in the habit of putting evergreens about the house, but I always did it at home, nnd " lie understood me nt once. He said, with his rare gentleness: "And you arc trying hard to keep some of the old feel ing about you. You must forgive me if I cannot help seeing something of your brave struggle, and yearning to help you in it." Yearning! It was a strong word, but his eyes made it stronger, as I could not help glancing up to see. And before, in my confusion, I could drop mine again, somehow my muff was on the snow at our feet, and both my hands were in his. "Miss Deane Annie I ran help you with my whole life, Annie:" And, nftcr that, is it any wonder if tho sun shone straight into my heart? I don't think our researches would have added much to the cnirse of either z'ology or botany that day. On the lat ter especially my lover would have made strange confusion, insisting that we were passing under quite a number of mistle toe boughs, if my superior knowledge, of the science had not set him right. We did find the crowfoot, however, nnd, as I had expected, not too deep in the snow. But when he had torn up a long spray of it and Hung it trailing over my shoulder, I stayed his hand. Madge uud I could come another dav for some there was plenty of time ut to-day's in-gather-iugs I meant to keep alt to myself. At least for this one duy, 1 told him, when we had leached the house, and paused together in the poivh. For this on day we would not call in any one, however liii iullv, to see whut t had brought me; but to-night, when he was gone, then 1 would tell Aunt Margaret that I was to be his wife. I taid the word in a little flutter as we stood to gether, for already he had been asking me how long I meant to keep his own from him. As I said it, I glanced up shyly at him, and it would have discom fited me to see how his face changed. pal ing at that word, if his hand liad not closed on mine with a tightening grasp which made me ashamed of a dawning doubt that he wanted it. "Annie " The voice, fulfc of a strange pain, startled me. Could this day have any pain in it ? Perhaps he read that thought he was always so quick to understand for he said : "I have a story to tell you, Annie, a story thnt may take some of thc bright ness out of this hour for you, as it has taken all the brightness out of the last seven years of my life until now. Shall I tell it you now ? Or can you trust me that it is nothing which ought to part us ? and would you rather wait to hear it until to-morrow ? " I could trust him; av, rather, I could ot distrust him ; and I told him so. Let us live this day out without a shadow; afterward, if shadows must come, he should lead me safely through them. "There is no danger in the shadow, Annie; there is only something for us both to forget." "Let us forget it now, then. See, there is Aunt Margaret at the window signing to me; she is afraid I shall let her neigh bor so offend ngninst her good old fashioned hospitality as to go away to his bachelor's hall, when it is three o'clock and our dinner hour." The shortest day of nil the year. "We were watching its setting from the libra ry window, we two left alone, for Madge nnd Fanny had driven" into the village for the mail, nnd Aunt Mnrgnret was summoned to one of those kitchen-cabinet councils which grew more nnd more frequent under old Lethe's administra tion. So we two were standing together in the bay-window, watching tho crim son glow fade off from the wide snow stretch of lawn that sloped down to the lane, dotted here nnd there with a black green pyramid of fir, between the naked oaks, when presently I caught sight of something moving across their shadows flung stiff and dark across the white. "Some one is coming," I said, break ing the happy silence. "A lady, I thought though I wonder who it could be, walking." "Whnt a bore!" "Oh, she'll not be shown in here, un less you feel disposed to go to Aunt Mar garet's assistance " Here I saw thc side door of tho library opening from the lawn. Tho visitor must have observed is ut the window; some one on sufficiently unceremonious terms. It wns a stranger. Sho had closed the door behind her. nnd had come forward into the full glow of the wood fire blazing on the hearth. A stranger, certainly; If I had ever seen her before, I should never have forgotten her. She waR standing on the hearth, nnd drew her slender gloved hands out of the folds of her cashmere shawl, holding them to the warmth, before she turned to us the fairest face I have ever seen the fairest face one ever dreamed. Only that would have been a strange, Fouque-like dream in which such a vision should come. It could not have been after-knowledge on my part, for before she spoke, while sho still fronted us with that gay smile upon her perfect lips, I thought of Un dine in her soulless loveliness, light hearted, glad, careless of others' pain be cause she could not feel it. There is tho Undine nature in a child too, for whom there exists no pain that does not bruise its own tender flesh, and that soft hardness made itself felt in every lino nnd curve about this womnn, as she stood there, white nnd golden, looking at us out of those great brilliant eyes, of which I have rend somewhere: "Alive in their depths, as the Kraken beneath the sea blue" eyes which I would fain have followed, for they fixed themselves on Brian. Only I could not, that face so held me. "They told me at your house that you were here; and so I came," sho said, still looking nt Brian. I turned and looked at him too, then; the clear, soft, shallow, child voice broke the spell. But he never saw me. His eyes were riveted on her just as a man might look who sees a ghost. And then she smiled. She had been beautiful before, but now her beauty was bewildering. She stretched out her hands to him. "Have you never a word of welcome, Brian, for your wife ? " lie drew a long, hard breath, and passed his hand heavilv over his eyes. He never once glanced my way. though I felt he saw me all the while. He answered her very slowly: "How is it you are not dead. Louise ? For nearly seven years you have nllowed me to believe you were." She laughed a mocking little laugh. Though she did not turn toward me, I knew she had flashed a glance nt me. "Have you been a disconsolate widower all that time, my poor llrian It was very wicked of me, of course. But then, you see, I always hated poverty: and yiU were so very impecunious at that time, 1 really thought it better to die off your hands." Here she turned suddenly to me with u sweet graciousness of manner, while her eyes, alive with mocking spirits, looked me through and through. "Ylv husband is a little remiss at in troductions, so I find I must make my self known to you, as 1 nee vou ure one of his friends. Everv one has a skeleton iu his closet, you know, and I present you to Brian's." She made a playful courtesy as she spoke. "Only he fancied it was laid away un derground," sho added. "Perhaps he has told you of our runaway match when he was at college, and how angry poor mamma was, and hushed the matter tip, and carried me away to Europe to finish my school days there. And tncre it was that mamma made her brilliant second marriage a real, true German baron ; and we went away to Vienna to live. But first I died; for one must die must not one? to get into paradise. Brian would never have 1 let me go there alive, so I sent him a lock of my hair nnd a little scrawling deathbed note inclosed in a letter from mamma's maid, who had helped us to run away tho year before. You remember Fifine, Brian"? She has come over with me now. Such a clever 8oull I can't tell how I should ever, without her, have man aged to keep myself informed of your movements, and of course I had to do that, for all widowers aren't so con stant, and you might have married, you know " He interrupted her, hoarse with pas sion : "And how do I know that you " "Oh, Brian, how can you! As if that were not just what my stepfather and I quarreled about! After dear mamma died she died last year" (with a pretty, plaintive fall in voice and eyelids, come and gone as swiftly as a child's grave look) "he was quite set on making a match for me; and of course that wouldn't do at all, you know. Denr mamma wns content to let me enjoy lifo my own way; but after .she was gone, thc steppapa became just, a little difficult. And so AVell, Brian, I knew you were no longer a poor man, and that I should not drag you down now. And so I have como back to you, if you will have me." She put out her hands then in the pret tiest pleading way. If I had been a man But Brian did not soften in the lenst. He had pent up his wrath now, and had it under his control; but his voice was still hoarse as he said to her: "I shall take pains to learn whether all this is truth. Meanwhile we will not trespass any longer upon Miss Dcanc's patience. I shall take you back to my house, and will set out within thc hour for Vienna. Miss Deane will par don " There he broke off huskily. He had not once lifted his eyes to mo since first they fell upon her shadow, which tho waning sunset cast between us. But how I hnd the strength I do not know but I went straight up to her nnd took her hand, and kissed her on the pretty smooth white brow ns she lifted up her face to mine. Is there womnn born who can keep anger for a pretty child? And there are some people who never outgrow the charm and irresponsi bility of childhood; if they pluck at one's heart-strings with their careless fingers until mic could bo stung into giving them a blow or a shakr, one must kiss and be friends afterward. And then I turned to him I must have had a vision of how it would all end : for she was wonderfully fair; she had been his first love; she would be his last. I turned to him. "I am sure you will find all as she has said, and thnt you will forgive her. I don't think I shall be here still when you come back from your long journey, so you must let me give you my best wishes now." Our hands met for an instant not our eyes ; we neither of us could bear that. Then onr hands fell apart, and presently I was alone. My day was over; twilight darkened in window, grey and blank. And after twilight ? Just a paragraph in a book I have been turning over by my solitary fireside to night has set me thinking of all this. It says : "There are women who live ull their lives long in the cold white moonlight of other people's reflected joy. It is not a bad kind of light to live, after all. It may leave some dark, ghostly corners iu the heart unwarmeir, but, like other moonlight, it lets a great deal be seen overhead that sunshine hides." llarper'i Weekly. A Lucky Confectioner. A German confectioner, while trump ing through Turkey a short time ago, saluted the Sultan vigorously as the latter drove past. Unaccustomed to such an exhibition of cordiality, one of the sul tan's officers thought it best to inouire if it had any significance. His explana tion proving satisfactory and his inno cence dear, and the avowal of his avoca tion, moreover, erratiiitr evident inti.rekt the man was dismissed with a present anil an injunction to turn up the next day with a clean skin and new clothes. The result of thc second interview was that the confectioner w as set to making pastry, and his success was so complete that lie wns eruriifed ri"ht olf lit n ..il-irv ,f Klin piasters per month. The pastry found its way to the sultan's table, and his highness was so pleased with it that he made thc stranger his confectioner at once, with 1,000 piasters a month for muking tarts. Beaching Great Depths. It has been found difficult to get cor rect soundings of the Atlantic. A mid shipman of the navy overcame the diffi culty, and shot weighing thirty pounds carries down the line. A hole is bored through the sinker, through which a rod of iron is passed, moving easily back and forth. In the end of the bar a cup is dug out and the inside coated w ' it It hud. The bur is mailt! fast to the line and a sling holds the shot on. When the bar which extends below the ball touches the eurth, the sling unhooks und the shot slides off. The lard in the end of the Uir holds some of the sand, or whatever may be on the bottom, uud a drop shuts over the cup to keep the water from Mushing the t-nnd out. When t lie ground is ri ached a shock is felt as if an electric current luul passed through tho line, ludeimi.dtn. BE KIND. Oh, be kind to those who love yonl Grieve no human love away I Twine it tenderly about you, Let it bless you day by day, Tho' the sunlight now may dazzle, Life has many a clouded sky; Hoard your treasures of affection, You will need them by and by. , Oh! be kind to those who love you I Give them gladness while you may I Here to-day, to-morrow's sunrise May behold them pass away." Lavish love on nil around you; Smiles and sunshine freely strew ; And, like bread upon the waters, They will yet return to you. Lillie Sheldon, in Inter-Ocean. HUMOR OF THE HAT. A smart boy Just after a whipping. Even tho honest farmer will water his stock. Call. Better an empty head than one with a cold in it. Life. There is one thing that is always pretty sound about a church, and that is the bell No man should complain alxmt his lot unless it be a lot of old rubbish. Hot Springs Newt. A philosopher snys thnt the best way to avoid getting into debt is to die young. Boston Budget. THIRTY-TWO DEOREE8. The way to school the small boy hateth. On learning, turns his back, and skateth. Life. If a passion, like love, grows by whnt it feeds upon, there is no doubt the wish is fodder to the thought. New Orlean Picayune. It costs $10,000 to convert a South Sea cannibal to Christianity, and then he is only worth $9 a week in a dime show. Fall River Advance. IN CANADA. The firelight dances on the walls, My heart throbs with love's elation, When like a eat my darling squalla "Ouch! Dear, don't squeeze my.vaecina nationl" Burdetle. "I want the music of tho 'Mikado,'" said a little boy, entering a New York music store. "For singing, or for the piano?" "I don't want it for either, I want it for my sister." Siftingt. Dio Lewis says that we busy, high pressure "Americans should jjo to bed at 9 and rise at 5. Such things make us tired. How can a man get out of bed four hours before ho lies down? Brook lyn Eagle. We see by thc burning of a cigar store in Chicago nearly a million cigars were smoked up at one sitting. Did it make anybody sick? you ask. You bet, simple one. It made the owner of the store sick. Burdettt. Another of thc old settlers is gone. We had a piece of him at our landlady's table this morning. Immediately beneath the epidermic formation from his back we found a piece of eggshell, bearing the legend, "Laid 1849." Sf. Paul Herald. A standard target for American rifle men has just been adopted by the clubs of the United States, which have had tho matter under discussion for several months. We hope it is hrrge enough to protect the indiscreet cows and pigs that wander about the various ranges. Boston Pod. A Great Hop Field. A Tacoma (Wyoming Territory) cor respondent of the Cleveland Leader says : "At thc rear of the house appeared to me a rare scene. Here stood acres of hop vines, wonderfully luxuriant in growth, and falling in rich brown festoons from poles eighteen or twenty feet in height. From these masses of vines not a single hop had been picked this year, nnd they were now laden w ith their scaly fruitage. From the leafy crown on each pole dripped a shower of glistening drops, producing all over the field a ringing pit-pat as they touched tho ground, while above them, exhaled under the increasing hent of the sun, rose thin clouds of shin ing vitor. On every hand tall trees hemmed the clearing in. There were only two dwellings in sight, One of these stood across thc river slightly obscurod by mist. As everybody knows, the ex cessive dampness of the sound country is due to its position between the Great Sea and the Cascade Mountains. The vumik. exhaled from the ocean, not being able, as they roll inland, to surmount these mighty summits, are turned back, con densed anil precipitated to the earth in plentiful rains, fogs and mists. "I have said that from these sixty-three acres of hops not a bale has been marketed this season, nor will be. 'Why is that?' Simply becnusc the price of hops this year at the picking season was too low to pay for harvesting. The owner had sunk sev eral thousand dollars in the cultivation of his crop. The picking and curing would add several thousands more to the amount, and, as he believed, from the tendency of the market, would put noth ing in his pocket. So ho let the uerid fruit hang. Further along the season it will fall to the ground and the money with it. Next spring both will bo plowed under, the combination forming one of the most unique fertilizers ever employed. It turned out, however, w hen too late to harvest, that the market im proved a little, enough so that something like $2,000 might have been put in bank hud the ingathering taken pluce. Lust yeur's crop on these same acres sold for nearly 14,000. From this statement may be formed some idea of tho loss sus tained the present season. ' "The average j ield of hops per acre in ttny of these extremely fertile valleys is front l.hoO to 2,'XIO pounds. Iu specially faunvd locutions it amounts up to ;),000 pounds, whiluon thin soils it may dn.p to 1.000.
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